Each month Statistics Canada releases comprehensive data on the state of Canada’s labour markets. The Survey of Employment, Payroll and Hours is based on firm-level administrative payroll data. This is distinct from the Labour Force Survey, which is another important source of labour market information.

This page summarizes all of the latest results from that data for May 2019.

Change in Employment, by Province

Displays the change in payroll employment and employment rates. First, since the start of Alberta’s recession. Then compares provinces.

Alberta

All Provinces

By Sector

Growth in employment, by sector.

Public vs Private

Earnings

Real Wages in Alberta

Sectoral Earnings

## # A tibble: 2 x 2
## # Groups:   GEO [2]
##   GEO     change
##   <chr>    <dbl>
## 1 Alberta 0.0691
## 2 Canada  0.100

Hourly Wages vs Salaries

Counterfactuals

If earnings grew with Canada

If overtime remained unchanged

If OT, Hours, and Sectoral Composition Unchanged

##   Ref_Date                 type    value
## 1 May 2019                 Data 1182.540
## 2 May 2019       Fixed Hours/OT 1214.733
## 3 May 2019  Fixed Sectoral Emp. 1262.937
## 4 May 2019 National Wage Growth 1301.449

##   Ref_Date                             type    value
## 1 May 2019                             Data 1182.540
## 2 May 2019 If Wage Growth\nMatched Canada's 1219.959

Oil and Gas Detail

Diffusion Index

Vacancy-to-Unemployment

 

Created by Trevor Tombe

ttombe@ucalgary.ca